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That Ted Cruz Is So Canadian

PJ Media, by Matt Vespa Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 2/17/2013 10:44:38 AM Post Reply

As Bryan Preston and Stephen Kruiser noted last week, the liberal media has mounted a campaign to destroy Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas). He’s a high priority target because he goes against everything the media has said about the Tea Party, and conservatism in general. For all the talk about the Tea Party’s anti-intellectualism, Cruz received his B.A. at Princeton University, and his Juris Doctor at Harvard University. He also clerked for Chief Justice William Rehnquist. As George Will wrote back in June of 2011, By the time Ted Cruz was 13, he was winning speech
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But Don´t Rule Out Malice

American Thinker, by Ryan Scott Welch Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 2/17/2013 10:33:39 AM Post Reply

There is an adage that reads "never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity... but don´t rule out malice." This is known as Heinlein´s or Hanlon´s Razor (there is only a slight difference between the two). Unfortunately many people only go by the first part of Heinlein´s Razor, leaving out the "but don´t rule out malice" part. People using this heuristic decision-making shortcut often think that even though some things that people do seem very suspect, and even though mental red flags are going up and instinctive alarms are sounding

Fear of gun control drives big
crowd at Ladson gun show

Post & Courier [Charleston, SC], by Andrew Knapp Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 2/17/2013 10:28:24 AM Post Reply

LADSON--As Jason Mele watched people peering down the sights of Mossbergs, Bushmasters and Remingtons, he couldn’t deny that something felt different this time.[Snip]But the sentiment that drove people to the Exchange Park fairgrounds--a fear that politicians will strip Americans of their firearms after 26 people were slain at Connecticut’s Sandy Hook Elementary School--was palpable Saturday, which likely went down as the most attended show in its history. This time, it could actually happen, many said. The enthusiasts cited changing times in which Washington lawmakers devise laws despite widespread disapproval. They pointed to President Barack Obama’s health care bill.

Large All-Star crowds prompt
Galleria to close

Houston Chronicle, by Anita Hassan Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 2/17/2013 10:20:46 AM Post Reply

Extremely large crowds at the Galleria for NBA All-Star festivities prompted officials to close the mall early Saturday night. The Galleria reached its legal capacity around 8:15 p.m. and began clearing out crowds, according to mall officials. "At no time was there a riot or a disturbance," Houston Police Department spokesman Victor Senties said. "At no time did anyone get unruly." Officers with an HPD special response team were on hand. Police and mall officials blocked entrances to the Galleria Saturday night. "As always, our primary concern is for the safety and well being

Two killers: Which received justice?

Daily Inter Lake [Kalispell MT], by Frank Miele Original Article

Posted By: davesenior- 2/17/2013 10:14:07 AM Post Reply

They say that justice delayed is justice denied.If that is the case, then surely the families of Harvey Mad Man and Thomas Running Rabbit can rightly complain that there is no justice in Montana.The two men were murdered execution style in 1982 by Ronald Allen Smith, who during his trial confessed to the murder and said he had wanted to know what it felt like to kill someone.He also rejected a plea bargain for life in prison and insisted on the death penalty.[SNIP] Maybe we can learn from the case of Eddie Anderson.

Obama Reverses Course,
Leaks Own Immigration
Plan: ´Dead on Arrival,´
Says Rubio

Breitbart Big Government, by Joel B. Pollak Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 2/17/2013 10:12:31 AM Post Reply

President Barack Obama reversed course on Saturday, preparing an immigration reform bill that was leaked to USA Today and that would allow illegal immigrants to become full permanent residents within eight years. The White House had previously refrained from offering its own immigration plan, after immigration reform advocates asked him not to do so for fear that his proposals could provoke Republican opposition to any reform bill. Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), a leader of the “Gang of Eight” that released a bipartisan plan for immigration reform last month, pronounced President Obama’s plan “dead on arrival in Congress.”

President Obama has set in
motion forces that he can´t handle.

American Thinker, by Neil Snyder Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 2/17/2013 10:02:17 AM Post Reply

Barack Obama is a terrible president. That´s obvious to everyone who isn´t chronically ignorant or incurably liberal. By "liberal" I don´t mean the classic definition of the word which has to do with being open-minded and objective. I mean the modern version of liberal: self-centered, emotional, illogical, and void of reason. Unfortunately, in 2012 ignoramuses and liberals represented the majority of those who voted. I´m not worried about offending them with my harsh words. My very existence offends them, and so does yours if you don´t buy into their worldview. From economic policy to energy policy to

Dozens of pro-Dorner
protesters rally at LAPD HQ

Associated Press, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: NorthernDog- 2/17/2013 9:42:56 AM Post Reply

LOS ANGELES — Dozens of protesters rallied outside Los Angeles police headquarters Saturday in support of Christopher Dorner, the former LAPD officer and suspected killer of four who died after a shootout and fire this week at a mountain cabin following one of the biggest manhunts in recent memory. Protesters told the Los Angeles Times (http://lat.ms/11Ndm6i ) they didn´t support Dorner´s deadly methods, but objected to police corruption and brutality, and believed Dorner´s claims of racism and unfair treatment by the department. Many said they were angered by the conduct of the manhunt that led to Dorner´s death and injuries

The Oscar for Best Fabrication

New York Times, by Maureen Dowd Original Article

Posted By: MissMolly- 2/17/2013 9:11:35 AM Post Reply

I SAW “Argo” with Jerry Rafshoon, who was a top aide to President Carter during the Iranian hostage crisis, when six Americans escaped and were given sanctuary for three months by courageous Canadian diplomats. We were watching a scene where a C.I.A. guy can’t get through to Hamilton Jordan, Carter’s chief of staff, to sign off on plane tickets for the escaping hostages, so he pretends to be calling from the school where Jordan’s kids go. “Hamilton wasn’t married then and didn’t have any kids,” Jerry whispered, inflaming my pet peeve about filmmakers who make up facts

Barack Obama Openly Hints
At Desire To Kill Citizens
With Drones Inside America…

Ulsterman Report, by Ulsterman Original Article

Posted By: LOL Thomas- 2/17/2013 9:10:07 AM Post Reply

In a very oddly worded public response to a question posed to him during an online interview, Barack Obama dances around the topic of using military drones to kill Americans inside of the United States. (Snip) First he begins his answer by stating, “There has never been a drone used on an American citizen on American soil.” Barack Obama doesn’t say there never will be – or that he never intends to do so…he instead chooses – deliberatly, to say that such a thing has not happened…YET.. The president then gets into the meat of his prepared statement

So total is the Left´s cultural
ascendancy that no one likes to
mention the socialist roots of fascism

The Telegraph[UK], by Daniel Hannan Original Article

Posted By: Not your typical New Yorker- 2/17/2013 8:54:33 AM Post Reply

´I am a Socialist,´ Hitler told Otto Strasser in 1930, ´and a very different kind of Socialist from your rich friend, Count Reventlow´. No one at the time would have regarded it as a controversial statement. The Nazis could hardly have been more open in their socialism, describing themselves with the same terminology as our own SWP: National Socialist German Workers´ Party. Almost everyone in those days accepted that fascism had emerged from the revolutionary Left. Its militants marched on May Day under red flags. Its leaders stood for collectivism, state control of industry, high tariffs, workers´ councils.

Oscar Pistorius murder charge:
bloodied cricket bat found
at Paralympic athlete´s home

Telegraph [UK], by Aislin Laing Original Article

Posted By: earlybird- 2/17/2013 8:40:45 AM Post Reply

Johannesburg - Local reports stated police believe he may have used the bat to attack girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp before shooting her dead on St Valentine´s Day morning, according to a local report. Detectives are working on two other theories concerning the bat: that it was either used to break down the door of the bathroom where she hid, or that she used it to defend herself against Mr Pistorius, South Africa´s City Press reported. One bullet cartridge was found in the champion sprinter´s bedroom and police are looking at whether

Oscar Pistorius’ version of girlfriend
slaying: “A terrible accident . . .
I’ve killed my baba”

Sunday Times (UK), by DAN MCDOUGALL and MARTINA LEES Original Article

Posted By: FlyRight- 2/17/2013 8:06:12 AM Post Reply

Oscar Pistorius carried the body of his dying girlfriend from the blood-streaked floor of the master bathroom in his luxurious Pretoria home and down the stairs, police sources say. Behind him lay the wooden splinters of the door he had shot through four times. The floor was strewn with spent bullet casings. He was close to exhaustion after giving Reeva Steenkamp, whom he had been dating for less than three months, mouth-to-mouth resuscitation in a futile effort to revive her.

Don’t Mythologize Christopher Dorner

New York Times, by Charles M. Blow Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 2/17/2013 6:28:45 AM Post Reply

I am no stranger to people’s glomming on to deadly criminals and celebrating them as heroes. Bonnie and Clyde were killed just south of the town where I grew up. There was that movie made about the couple, as well as a musical and more songs that I can count. And every year the town celebrates the duo and their killing with a festival and a shootout. Last year, one Web site promoting the festival read: “Bring your family and friends and join us each year as we remember the historical ambush of the infamous outlaws Bonnie & Clyde

Russia Humiliates Kerry,
Ignores His Calls for a Week

Front Page, by Daniel Greenfield Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 2/17/2013 6:19:55 AM Post Reply

Obama’s soft power has really done wonders for the diplomatic standing of the United States. Maybe Kerry should practice his diplomacy on someone easier. Like the Viet Cong. Secretary of State John Kerry’s Tuesday call to his Russian counterpart has gone unanswered for nearly a week after North Korea tested a nuclear device. It is not the first time Moscow has not returned calls from the State Department: Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had difficulty getting through to her counterpart when she was in the post. State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said Thursday that “the Foreign Minister

Why Dr. Ben Carson is my hero --
it´s not what you think

Fox News, by Juan Williams Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 2/17/2013 6:08:50 AM Post Reply

Dr. Ben Carson is my hero. But not because of his controversial speech at the National Prayer Breakfast in front of President Obama. Conservative, mostly white Republican critics of the president are praising Dr. Carson because they are ecstatic to see a black man express conservative ideas to the face of a liberal, Democrat and black president’s face. But that is not why I consider Dr. Carson a hero. He is a winner to me for living by the conservative principles I want young America, especially poor black and Latino kids, to see as the prescription for success.

Obama admin winds down
plan for ´uninsurables´

Associated Press, by Ann Sanner Original Article

Posted By: MissMolly- 2/17/2013 6:00:57 AM Post Reply

WASHINGTON — Citing financial concerns, the Obama administration has begun quietly winding down one of the earliest programs created by the president´s health care overhaul, a plan that helps people with medical problems who can´t get private insurance. In an afternoon teleconference with state counterparts, administration officials said Friday the Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan will stop taking new applications. People already in the plan will not lose coverage. Designed as a stopgap solution until the law´s full consumer protections are in effect next year, PCIP has served more than 135,000 people, a lifeline for patients with serious medical problems

Three Cheers for Charles Blow

American Thinker, by Paul Jacobson Original Article

Posted By: DW626- 2/17/2013 5:58:58 AM Post Reply

As one who has delivered some harsh -- one might say blistering -- condemnations against New York Times columnist Charles Blow, I feel compelled to proffer unqualified commendation of his recent column on the California cop killer. In the interest of consistent truthfulness, sometimes it´s necessary to admit that someone normally considered an adversary -- even an enemy -- has gotten it right... even while my jaw is dropping. Contra the denizens of lefty-loon bloggers, commenters, tweeters, letter-to-the-editor writers, Blow´s response is unambiguous

Authorities to decide fate of
Dorner reward money

CNN, by Melissa Gray Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 2/17/2013 5:52:17 AM Post Reply

It´s the million-dollar reward that´s raising a million-dollar question: Who, if anyone, is entitled to the money offered in the hunt for Christopher Dorner? The catch is that Dorner, the rogue former Los Angeles police officer who sparked a massive manhunt, was never captured. He died after a shootout and fire at a California mountain cabin this week after, authorities say, he killed four people and wounded three others. The city of Los Angeles put up the $1 million reward Sunday, together with other jurisdictions, groups, and private donors. It had been a few days since Dorner was last seen,

Bye, bye, Facebook: Americans
abandoning in droves, says poll

Washington Examiner [DC], by Paul Bedard Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 2/17/2013 5:49:23 AM Post Reply

The Facebook craze that gave us Farmville and notes from "friends" about their breakfast and just about everything else may finally be ending. A new Pew Research Center poll finds that a huge group of users, 61 percent, are taking breaks from Facebook up to "several weeks" long, and that virtually all age groups are decreasing their time on the social media site that recently flopped in its initial public offering of publicly traded stock. Most devastating: 38 percent of users aged 18-29, the focus of advertisers on the site, plan to slash their time on Facebook this year.

Charges against Jackson
belie his pledge to service

Chicago Tribune, by John Chase, Jeff Coen & Bridget Doyle Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 2/17/2013 5:45:34 AM Post Reply

Jesse Jackson Jr.´s final act as a public official was to send a Thanksgiving eve resignation letter to the speaker of the House in which he declared that "for 17 years I have given 100 percent of my time, energy and life to public service." But federal prosecutors unveiled an image of Jackson as less a public servant and more a politician interested in surrounding himself with treasures. A gold-plated Rolex. Furs and cashmere capes. Memorabilia from the likes of Michael Jackson, Bruce Lee and Martin Luther King Jr. Luxuries out of the reach of the many people

Top Dog: U.S. Marines welcome
their newest bulldog, Chesty

Washington Times, by Jennifer Harper Original Article

Posted By: MissMolly- 2/17/2013 5:34:35 AM Post Reply

He’s only nine weeks old, but has already entered recruit training. That would be “Chesty,” the pedigreed English bulldog and future Marine Corps mascot, who arrived at Marine Barracks in the nation’s capital on Valentine’s Day. The handsome and distinguished young Chesty will enter obedience school and canine “recruit training,” earn the title of Marine and be named the next Marine Corps mascot on March 29. His official duties include marching in myriad events, including the Friday twilight parades at the facility, looking tough but buff in his own custom dress blues. Mascots and Marines have a long history,

Here´s Why Astronomers Did Not Detect
The Russia Meteor Ahead Of Time

Business Insider, by Dina Spector Original Article

Posted By: MissMolly- 2/17/2013 5:30:18 AM Post Reply

It was an incredible day for near-Earth objects, with two rare cosmic events occurring on the same day. First, a tiny asteroid actually hit Earth, creating a significant explosion over eastern Russia around 9:30 a.m. on Feb. 15 in that part of the world. Less than 24 hours later, a larger asteroid, 2012 DA14, passed safely above Earth at a distance of around 17,200 miles, the closest an object of that size has come to our planet since scientists began monitoring the skies. Astronomers had been tracking that asteroid for about a year and knew

White Paper Suggests U.S. Could
Launch Drones Into U.S. Cities

Daily Beast, by Kal Raustiala Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 2/17/2013 5:05:36 AM Post Reply

President Obama´s deep embrace of drones as a tool against terror was thrust into the spotlight last week by the release of an official “white paper” detailing when, and why, the federal government could intentionally kill American citizens. Many have found the whole idea of targeting Americans for death abhorrent; the analysis has been called “chilling” and full of “twisted definitions.” The government’s white paper declares that the Constitution doesn´t protect citizens who act as senior leaders of al Qaeda from death from above. That, and the idea that judges have no real role to play in the targeting process,

Crime (and Plagiarism) Pays—
in Speakers´ Fees

Bloomberg Businessweek, by Keenan Mayo Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 2/17/2013 4:56:27 AM Post Reply

This week, the Knight Foundation, a nonprofit promoting “quality journalism,” forked out a $20,000 speaking fee for disgraced science writer and author Jonah Lehrer to discuss his plagiarism and other journalistic indiscretions. While many questioned the sincerity of his mea culpa, Lehrer’s towering fee drew the most scrutiny. On Thursday, the Knight Foundation issued an apology of its own, explaining that it had put “itself into a position tantamount to rewarding people who have violated the basic tenets of journalism. … It was simply not something Knight Foundation, given our values, should have paid.” Whether or not that’s true,

Would New Gun Laws Spark
Widespread Civil Disobedience?

PJ Media, by Paul Hsieh Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 2/17/2013 4:50:23 AM Post Reply

In his State of the Union address, President Obama doubled down on his gun-control proposals, again demanding that Congress ban so-called “assault weapons” and “high capacity magazines.” This is not a surprise. What has been a surprise are the increasingly open calls for defiance from gun owners, state legislatures, and local law enforcement. If the president’s proposals become law, he may move the country into turbulent waters we haven’t seen in many years. Gun control has long been a controversial issue in American politics. However, there are three aspects to this issue that make this more volatile

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